Sounds good on paper (he/him)
Opened.
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
Apparently Apple was forced to make changes to the App Store so that users' can buy applications not listed there or developer with their proprietary SDK (this includes browsers, which up til now are basically reskins of Safari).
But only in the EU. They'll check your phones geo location and block you from using these changes if your in the United States.
I love how Apple's complaining about how the EU is making them "open up their phones to security risks."
I mean, I do get the fact that Apple set up the iPhone as a walled garden from the very opening and I'm naturally fond of the "it's our platform" argument, but the EU isn't a place where you can do what you want with your own business. XD
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I mean, I've never been a fan of that argument. "It's our platform so we can set the rules and keep patching the system to block any attempts to work around it" is literally saying "we should be allowed to get away with monopolistic and monopsonistic practices". At the point you've created (intentionally or unintentionally) a secondary market running off your system, you should accept that it's subject to the same rules as every other market. Which includes not attempting to keep a stranglehold on every aspect of it.
Anyhow, anyone got a source covering the above changes/release that isn't filtered through Apple insisting that it's a security risk?
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Apple has kept an illegal monopoly over smartphones in US, Justice Department says in antitrust suit
I'm fairly interesting in seeing how this is prosecuted. I expect this will be settled out of court with some anti-monopolistic concessions on Apple's part; when is the last time the Do J fully prosecuted an antitrust case?
An early NB: It's important to note that Apple doesn't have a full monopoly on the smartphone market, but it does have the dominant market share. It's not the monopoly that is illegal, the crime(s) the Do J is alleging is Apple using this dominant position to advance it's market power.
Edited by Readersprite on Mar 21st 2024 at 12:49:09 PM
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